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Vincent Kompany criticised Jose Mourinho, saying a player's celebration never justifies racist abuse.
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00:00So after the game, you have the leader of an organization, Jose Mourinho, who uses, basically, who attacks the character
00:13of Vinicius Junior by bringing in the type of celebration to discredit what Vinicius is doing in this moment.
00:20And for me, in terms of leadership, it's a huge mistake. And it's something that we should not accept. So
00:27I'm very clear on that.
00:28On top of it, he mentions the name of Eusebio. To say that Benfica cannot be racist because the best
00:35player in the history of Benfica is Eusebio.
00:39You know what black players had to go through in the 1960s? When Jose Mourinho is doing the knee slide
00:44at Old Trafford, when he goes to, because he attacked the celebration of Vinicius Junior,
00:49when he goes to the fans in the semi-final Inter Milan against Barcelona and he goes in front of
00:54the Barcelona fans and does the celebration,
00:56when he plays against Sevilla with A.S. Roma. And in that moment, he's fighting with the referees and the
01:02referees have to go under protection, leave the country under protection after that game.
01:06In that moment, if someone was racist to Mourinho, I would have hoped that all of us would say, stop.
01:13It doesn't matter his celebration. And I understand maybe what he's done, but he's made a mistake.
01:21And it's something that hopefully in the future won't happen like this again and that we can move forward and
01:30grow.
01:32So...
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